This site is for mothers of kids in the U.S. Navy and for Moms who have questions about Navy life for their kids.
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FOLLOW THESE STEPS TO GET STARTED:
Choose your Username. For the privacy and safety of you and/or your sailor, NO LAST NAMES ARE ALLOWED, even if your last name differs from that of your sailor (please make sure your URL address does not include your last name either). Also, please do not include your email address in your user name. Go to "Settings" above to set your Username. While there, complete your Profile so you can post and share photos and videos of your Sailor and share stories with other moms!
Make sure to read our Community Guidelines and this Navy Operations Security (OPSEC) checklist - loose lips sink ships!
Join groups! Browse for groups for your PIR date, your sailor's occupational specialty, "A" school, assigned ship, homeport city, your own city or state, and a myriad of other interests. Jump in and introduce yourself! Start making friends that can last a lifetime.
Link to Navy Speak - Navy Terms & Acronyms: Navy Speak
All Hands Magazine's full length documentary "Making a Sailor": This video follows four recruits through Boot Camp in the spring of 2018 who were assigned to DIV 229, an integrated division, which had PIR on 05/25/2018.
Boot Camp: Making a Sailor (Full Length Documentary - 2018)
Boot Camp: Behind the Scenes at RTC
...and visit Navy.com - America's Navy and Navy.mil also Navy Live - The Official Blog of the Navy to learn more.
OPSEC - Navy Operations Security
Always keep Navy Operations Security in mind. In the Navy, it's essential to remember that "loose lips sink ships." OPSEC is everyone's responsibility.
DON'T post critical information including future destinations or ports of call; future operations, exercises or missions; deployment or homecoming dates.
DO be smart, use your head, always think OPSEC when using texts, email, phone, and social media, and watch this video: "Importance of Navy OPSEC."
Follow this link for OPSEC Guidelines:
Events
**UPDATE as of 11/10/2022 PIR vaccination is no longer required.
FOLLOW THIS LINK FOR UP TO DATE INFO:
RESUMING LIVE PIR - 8/13/2021
Please note! Changes to this guide happened in October 2017. Tickets are now issued for all guests, and all guests must have a ticket to enter base. A separate parking pass is no longer needed to drive on to base for parking.
Please see changes to attending PIR in the PAGES column. The PAGES are located under the member icons on the right side.
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The gift of one's voice!
What a precious gift the sound of a voice can be. The sound of their breathing when they slept as a baby, their first words, their voice when we thought they were lost in a crowd, the "I'm home!" when you have waited up for them to come home, "I love you" ANYTIME! And the call home from bootcamp, especially on Mothers Day. You can keep the brunch, flowers, candy - the phone call is tops! (not that we don't love the other things too :))
Old recordings of our loved ones can trigger such memories, it's amazing how despite not hearing them for years, the sound of their voice brings back so much emotion. Plug in that video and close your eyes and just listen to them speak.
As Mothers we can hear so much in the voice of our child. We sense if he/she is ok or if something is on their mind, the words are almost secondary to the message that their voice brings to our ears.
At this time we are restrained from hearing their voice very often and we must place our words on the page, with no inflection or emotion. What a challenge it is to convey all we hope and feel into the one dimensional words that sit on a piece of paper. I don't take communication for granted anymore. We have lived in a world of instant communication gratification so now we learn how to wait.
I understand so many have had phone calls, what a gift. Happy Mothers Day..and I just realized on 06/19/2015, it will be Fathers Day Weekend. It just figures they get theirs "in person", oh well :)
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